RACES: North of the Line, Too

Letting out the first growl of its life, the
year-old federal Civil Rights Commission announced last week that it
will use its subpoena powers to gather in witnesses and records for
public hearings on denial of voting rights to Alabama Negroes. Place
and time of hearings: Montgomery, Ala., starting in early December. In
a strained attempt to prove its fair-mindedness, the commission added
that it was pursuing an investigation north of the Mason-Dixon line,
too. Some Puerto Ricans, the commission explained, have charged that
New York City's literacy test denies voting rights to citizens who
cannot read and write...